Edmond Lemery

Edmond Lemery (13 April 1785-2 February 1814) was a general of the First French Empire.

Biography
Edmond Lemery was born on 13 April 1785 in Gissey-le-Vieil, Cote-d'Or in the Burgundy region of eastern France. Lemery enlisted in the French Army in 1803, and he was a veteran of Napoleon I of France's campaigns against the Austrian Empire and Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars. By 1814, he was a general at the age of 29, one of the youngest generals of the First French Empire at the time. He was given command of a French army - mostly National Guard - in Alsace-Lorraine, and on 2 February 1814 he fought Prussia at the Battle of Ergersheim. Lemery was killed along with all of his horsemen while attempting to flee from Prussian troops as the battle came to a close, being shot in the back by a musketball and his horse fleeing.